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Test 10 · ★★★ · Growing apart

Gaz-not-Big-Gaz and Sam's dad haven't spoken in twenty years. Was there a fight?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fight · What happens: not speak, be · To what, where: Gaz · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 464 «Growing apart» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

Sentence 1: Gaz-not-Big-Gaz and Sam's dad haven't spoken in twenty years.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gaz	Gaz	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 spoken	nsubj:pass
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Big	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 Big	advmod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Big	punct
5	Big	Big	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Gaz	conj
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Gaz	punct
7	Gaz	Gaz	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Gaz	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 dad	cc
9	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 dad	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Sam	case
11	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Gaz	conj
12	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 spoken	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 spoken	advmod
14	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 years	case
16	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 years	nummod
17	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 spoken	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 spoken	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	present · perfect · passive		Gaz and Big and Gaz and Sam's dad			year		tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Sentence 2: Was there a fight?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	1 Was	expl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fight	det
4	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Was	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Was	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a fight			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

Yes, over a computer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 computer	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 computer	punct
3	over	over	ADP	_	5 computer	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 computer	det
5	computer	computer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, they just grew in different directions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 grew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 grew	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grew	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 grew	advmod
5	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 directions	case
7	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 directions	amod
8	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	they			different directions			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Location

Option 3

Yes, a huge one about rugby that nobody forgot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 one	det
4	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 one	amod
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 rugby	case
7	rugby	rugby	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 one	nmod
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 forgot	obj
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 forgot	nsubj
10	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 one	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	nobody	a huge one about rugby					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nobody knows, it was a secret

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 knows	nsubj
2	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 secret	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 secret	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 secret	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 secret	det
7	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knows	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	Nobody						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	it	a secret					tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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